Improvement in pumping apparatus



W. COUTS.

PUMPING-APPARATUS.

No. 176,515. Patented Apri125.1876.

WITNESSES N. PETERS, FHQTO-LFTHOGRAPNER. WASHINGTON. D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

WADE OOUTS, OF BRQWNVILLE, NEBRASKA.

IMPROVEMENT lN PUMPING APPARATUS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 176,515., dated April25, 1876 application filed March 21, 1876.

To all. whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WADE GoUTs, of Brownville, in the county of Nemahaand State of Nebraska, have invented a new and useful Improvement inPumping Apparatus, of which the following is a specification Figure 1 isa side View of my improved pumping apparatus. Fig. 2 is a top view ofthe same.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspending parts.

The object of this invention is to furnish an improved pumping apparatuswhich shall be so constructed that the stock may be made to waterthemselves, and which shall be simple in construction and reliable inuse.

The invention consists in the combination of the two wheels, the smallroller, the crank, the connecting-rod, the pivoted lever, the two ropes,the two weights, and the 'treadle-platform with each other, and with theframe and the pump, as hereinafter fully described.

A represents a frame-work, in the upper part of which are pivoted twowheels, B O. Beneath the wheel G is placed a small roller or pulley, D,to the journal of which is at tached a small crank, E. To the crank E ispivoted the end of a connecting-rod, F. the

other end of which is pivoted to the end of a lever, G. The lever G ispivoted to the frame A, and to its other end is pivoted the end of thepiston-rod H of the pump I. J is a rope, the middle part of which makesone or more turns around the roller D, and the ends of tached a weight,L, sufficient to overbalance the weight K and work the pump. To theweight L is attached the end of the rope M, which passes over the wheelB, and with its other end is connected the end of the treadleplatform N.The platform N is arranged in the gateway leading from the feeding-yardto the watering-yard, so that the cattle, in passing in and out throughsaid gateway, must necessarily operate the pump. As the cattle step uponthe treadle-platform N, their weight draws down the outer end of therope M, which raises the weight L, and allows the weight K to descendand work the pump. As the cattle leave the platform N, the weight Ldescends, which raises the weight K, turns the wheel 0 in the oppositedirection, and again works the pump. A portion of the water raised bythe pump may be conducted away to suitable troughs for watering smallstock. The trough that receives the water from the pump 1 should beplaced at such a distance from the gateway that the cattle, in standingaround it, will not block up the said gateway.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- The combination of the two wheels B G, the smallroller D, the crank E, the connectingrod F, the pivoted lever G, the tworopes J M, the two weights K L, and the treadle-platform N with eachother, and with the frame A and the pump H I, substantially as hereinshown and described.

WADE OOUTS.

Witnesses:

I. W. ORANMEE, O. E. PLAsTERs.

